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In computing, entropy is the randomness collected by an operating system or application for use in cryptography or other uses that require random data. This randomness is often collected from hardware sources, either pre-existing ones such as mouse movements or specially provided randomness generators. A lack of entropy can have a negative impact on performance and security. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Entropy (computing)A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: High-Entropy Oxide Memristors for Neuromorphic Computing: From Material Engineering to Functional IntegrationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Biomedical Signal and Image Examination with Entropy-Based TechniquesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Granular computing, rough entropy and object extractionCited 153 times
- Go sideways: /dev/randomA closely related topic
- Go sideways: CryptGenRandomA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Granular computing, rough entropy and object extraction
Intracellular Entropy‐Driven Multi‐Bit DNA Computing for Tumor Progression Discrimination
An improved algorithm for computing topological entropy
On computing the entropy of cellular automata
Computing the topological entropy of maps
Computing enthalpy–entropy interplay for isomeric fullerenes
A FAST ALGORITHM FOR COMPUTING SAMPLE ENTROPY
On computing the entropy of braids
🆕 Influential since 2022
High-Entropy Oxide Memristors for Neuromorphic Computing: From Material Engineering to Functional Integration
Intelligent neuro-computing for entropy generated Darcy–Forchheimer mixed convective fluid flow
Three-Way Approximations Fusion With Granular-Ball Computing to Guide Multigranularity Fuzzy Entropy for Feature Selection
Knacks of neuro-computing to study the unsteady squeezed flow of MHD carbon nanotube with entropy generation
Entropy Normalization SAC-Based Task Offloading for UAV-Assisted Mobile-Edge Computing
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Biomedical Signal and Image Examination with Entropy-Based TechniquesV. Rajinikanth, K. Kamalanand · 2020
Maximum entropy and Bayesian methods, Laramie, Wyoming, 1990Walter T. Grandy, W. T. Grandy Jr. · 1899
Maximum Entropy and Bayesian MethodsJohn Skilling · 2010
Temporal GISGeorge Christakos, Patrick Bogaert · 2001
Information and the Internal Structure of the UniverseStonier, Tom. · 1990
Information and self-organizationH. Haken · 1988- 📕Entropy Measures, Maximum Entropy Principle and Emerging ApplicationsKarmeshu · 2010
Entropy, Search, ComplexityImre Csiszár, Gyula O.H. Katona · 2007
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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